BLACKROCK WILL LET YOU OWN BITCOIN — AS LONG AS YOU AGREE NOT TO GET RICH
BlackRock filed for a bitcoin ETF that caps your upside and "protects" your downside. The Calamos version it copied keeps 90%...
THEY BLOCKED 10,092 TRANSFERS TO BITCOIN — THEN JPMORGAN ADMITTED IT WILL BEAT GOLD, STOCKS AND BONDS
9,803 people filed 10,092 complaints against UK banks in 90 days for blocking Bitcoin transfers. The same week, JPMorgan projected Bitcoin...
MT. GOX JUST ASKED ITS VICTIMS FOR ONE MORE YEAR — SIXTH EXTENSION, TWELVE YEARS, AND $2.8 BILLION STILL SITTING IN A WALLET
A Tokyo court just moved Mt. Gox repayments to October 31, 2027 — the sixth extension. Roughly 34,400 BTC ($2.8 billion)...
HALF OF CRYPTO INVESTORS DID NOT KNOW SELLING WAS TAXABLE. CONGRESS IS ABOUT TO HAND THEM A 0% PENALTY GET-OUT WHILE YOU ALREADY PAID.
Section 502 of H.R. 10357 hands a 0% penalty to crypto traders who certify they didn't know the rules - and...
THEY PROMISED TO STACK BITCOIN FOREVER. THEN THEY HANDED 2,100 COINS TO A VIDEO GAME COMPANY.
Metaplanet just traded 2,100 BTC — about $172 million — for 93.7% of a shrinking Nasdaq gaming company. Its own stock...
THEY SOLD YOU SELF-CUSTODY — THEN GENERATED YOUR SEED WITH MATH.RANDOM(). 1,400 WALLETS JUST WENT TO ZERO.
Qubic froze its entire chain after 1,400 wallets were drained by seeds built with JavaScript's Math.random(). Coldcard lost $38M the same...
BITCOIN MINERS SOLD 15,000 BTC TO ESCAPE INTO AI — MICROSOFT JUST WALKED AWAY, AND THE POWER WON’T BE READY UNTIL THE 2030s
Microsoft walked away from a UK AI data center run by Nscale, a bitcoin mining spin-off, after the grid said power...
Run Your Own Bitcoin Node on Umbrel at Home
Your wallet asks a stranger's server if your money is real. Run your own Bitcoin node on Umbrel at home and...
THE BANKS JUST ADMITTED THEY HOLD A LEVER OVER STABLECOINS – AND BITCOIN HAS NO LEVER TO PULL.
A BIS working paper found that a one basis point rise in bank deposit rates slows stablecoin growth, cutting a typical...
BITCOIN REGULATOR SUED GEMINI AND GOT $5 MILLION – THEN TRIED TO DELETE THE CASE. THE JUDGE REFUSED.
The CFTC and Gemini jointly asked a judge to erase a $5 million Bitcoin futures settlement. Judge Hellerstein refused. The penalty...
Self-Custody Needs a Node: Umbrel + Hardware Wallet
A hardware wallet holds your keys, but your node checks the rules. Pair it with Umbrel for real self-custody.
COINBASE COULDN’T KEEP CUSTOMER MONEY IN THE RIGHT ACCOUNT FOR FIVE YEARS — IRELAND FINED IT $3.6 MILLION, AND WASHINGTON STILL CALLS IT CUSTODY
Ireland's central bank fined Coinbase EUR 3.25 million for leaving customer money in the wrong accounts for five years. Coinbase says...